Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1933, Page 5

NEUTRALS ASSAL PARACLAY ACTION Soler’s Departure Closes Door in Face of U. S., Latin Nations ‘and League. D+, Soler, the representative of Para- guay on the Commission of Neutrals to nd a solution of the Chaco dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia, closed the door in the face of the American Government, the League of Nations and the neutral nations of South America by departing vesterday for his native land and refusing to listen any further to the proposals of the commission, which is under the chairmanship of Assistant Secretary of State Francis ‘White, The depsyture of the Paraguayan representetive, while expected in cer- tain quarters, came like a bombshell in Washington diplomatic circles, For the last six months Assistant Secretary of State White and repre- sentatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru have been endeavoring to find a solution to the Chaco dispute and put an end to the unofficial war be- tween Paraguay and Bolivia. Even the League of Nations took a hand in it, but nobody seemed able to bring about an agreement whereby the disputant * states should submit their row to an international arbitration. Paraguay Denounced. As soon as Dr. Soler left, stating| diplomatically that he might return, | Mr. White and the other members of the commission began sending lcng telegrams to all the interested nations | MARINES PREPARE FOR MOST STRENUOUS FIGHT OF CAREER Colorful Arm of Nation's Forces Fe.arsf' Extinction Through Economies " plannecl l)y Congrcss. The Marines believe they are now facing their most strenuous campaign— to hold their lines intact and maintain | thelr existence as an essential part of | the armed forces of the United States. They envison a battle more vigorous than that with the Barbary pirates, back in the dawn of the nineteenth | century; more exacting than with the British 'in the War of 1812; more stirring than with the Mexicans, when they marched from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and assaulted the heights of Chapultepec; more troublesome than in the days of the Civili War; more momentous than the seizing of Guan- | tanamo Bay, Cuba, as an advance base for the American Fleet, in the Spanish War; more important than the red days of Chateau-Thierry, the Argonne Forest and the Meuse, when new glories were inscribed upon their escutcheons. As the Marines see it, they are battling for | their very existence as part of the Nation's fighting forces. Fear Complete Extinction. They fear, possibly with good reason, that they are on the brink of extinction. Why, they ask, is it necessary to cut the Marines to save $1,350,000, a relatively small sum in the entire fed- | eral budget? “Is not thi glerious tradition, entitled to better treatment at the hands of the Republic | it has so often f ught so well to save?” they query. The United States Marine Corps be- | is vigorous outfit, with its | ™ and to Geneva denouncing the PAra-|jjeves that instead of being trimmed by guayan attitude. | The commission cabled Geneva that | while the Bolivian government had “expressed its acceptance in principle | of the proposal of the Neutral Com- mission of December 15 as a basis for discussion, the Paraguayan government stated that the proposal does not glive assurance that the fighting will not be resumed and demand complete evacua- tion of Chaco by Bolivia, the limits of which ere not agreed to by the Bolivian and Paraguayan governments. “The neutrals in reply pointed out that they are not judges passing on the titles of either party, but are merely offering a way out by separating the troops to such extent as to give definite assurances that fighting will not be yesumed * * *" League Interference Barred. As the interference of the League of Nations in this matter is not considered either desirable or efficacious by any of | the neutrals, the aable ended by gently putting an end o any attempt of interference on the part of the League: “The Neutral Commission will be glad to keep you advised of developments and to make any suggestions for co- operation which might later be per- tinent.” To the Brazilian government, Mr. White, as chairman of the Neutral Com- mission, has sent a cable appealing directly for help. After reviewing the developments which led to the departure of Dr. Soler, he asked the Brazilian government: “In these circumstances, the Neutral Commission desires to know what steps your excellency’s government is pre- pared to take in order to bring about peace between these two countries. If the countries of this hemisphere will work_together, peace can be re-estab- lished. * * * The Neutral Commission will very much appreciate a prompt veply “rom vour excellency. A similar request, is being made of the other gov- ernments bordering on Bolivia and Paraguay.” TWO SHORT OPERAS WILL BE PRESENTED “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pag- liacci” Will Be Here in Audi- torium January 22. Alfredo Salmaggi will present a double | attraction at Washington Auditorium Sunday evening, January 22, when he | will conduct the two famous short operas, “Cavalleria Rusticana,” in one | act, by Pietro Mascagni, and “Pagliacci,” Leoncavallo’s musical drama in two acts | and a prologue. Maestro Selmaggi is well known here | and in other musical centers for his | outdoor and indoor operatic productions, | in which have participated stars of the Metropolitan Opera Co. Chicago Civic | Opera and other outstanding companies. The presentation, originally an- nounced to be staged at the National Theater, was transferred to the audi- torium to take advantage of that hall’s large seating capacity. | Ruth Peter, one of Washington’s own | singers who has been abroad for a | number of years making an intensive study, will make her Capital deput in “Pagliaccl.” Pasquale Amato, Gluseppe Radaelli, Luigi Bonelli and Ludovico | Oliviero will be the male voices. | In the Mascagni opera, the cast will | comprise Lola Monti Gorsey, dramatic | soprano, who achieved success in 1929 | upon her premiere with the Ravinia | Opera Co. Chicago; Ralph Errolle, | Dorothy Scegar, Lea Silva and Bonelli. | BRINKMAN TO SPEAK ON RENT SITUATION| Special Attorney for Senate Inves- tigating Subcommittee Will Make Two Addresses. | Oscar H. Brinkman, special at- torney for the Senate Rent Investigating Subcommittee of the Distriet Com- mittee, will discuss the “Rent Situation in Washington” in two public ad- dresses this week. With Senator William Democrat, of Utah, the rent investi- gator will appear before the Better Citizens' National Council, a colored or- this afterncon at 3:30 1 the Metropolitan A. M. E He also will discuss alley con- Scnator King also is expected k on matters of timely Intercst citizens of Washington. night Mr. Brinkman will lumbia_Heights Citizens’ t 8 o'clock in the assembly ourth Presbyterian Church, nth and Fairmont streets. “THINGS THAT ABIDE” IS TOPIC OF SERMON Communion to Be Administered at H. King. ill 11 O'Clock Service in Universal- ist National Memorial. “Things That Abide” is the theme of the New Year sermon of Dr Frederic W. Perkins, minister of the Universalist National Memorial Church. In connection with the morning ser- vice at 11 o'clock there will be a com- munion service, At the meeting of the Optimist Club, ‘Tuesday evening, Frank Davis will give an fllustrated talk on “The Construc- tion of the Empire State Building.” Wednesday at 10 o'clock the women of tue church will meet in the parish house to sew for the Red Cross. This is an all day mceting. A meoting ot the board of management will be Jan- uary 5, at 8 o'clock. The W. E. D. O. Circle will hold & card party Friday evening in the Ro-| maine-van Schaick room. At 7:30 p.m,ihnsnc and unit training would suffer Heme for Children. Prayer and praise meet in the Boy Scout Troop will Perkins Hall. | 1,743 enlisted men, as is now proposed, | | with the flest. On the present strength, | preparations for | peace and for specific war missions. the Nation’s legislators should heed the advice of the General Board of the | Navy and other high-ranking naval officials and build the force up, rather than tear it down, so that this ancient organization, the first armed force to be established under the Stars and Stripes, might be able, properly and eficiently, to carry out its assigned functions. Fuller Issues Warning. Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, commandant of the Marine Corps, in his recent an- nual report. issued this warning: “The reduction of the enlisted strength of the Marine Corps from 18,000 to 15,343 has made it impossible for the Corps to carry out its primary mission of sup- porting the United States fleet by main- taining a force in readiness to operate only weakly skeetonized organizations of such arms that are essential to a modern military force can be main- tained. “With the present enlisted strength, the Marine Corps is not prepared to perform its allotted task in the event of a national emergency.” Furemost among Gen. Fuller’s recom- mendations appears the following: “That the enlisted strength of the Ma- rine Corps be restored to 18.000, as soon as the state of the Treasury war- rants it.” ‘The head of the Marine Corps forti- fled this position recently by telling & special subcommittee of the House Naval Affairs Committee that the or- ganization has suffered successive re- ductions in strength since July 1, 19830, to such an extent that if the proposed slash of 1,743 enlisted men is approved, the Corps will have been cut 24.4 per cent in three years. Other Arms Not Cut. Gen. Fuller remarked to the legisla- | tors: “The Marine Corps fails to under: stand why it has been marked for re- | duction in this manner, since other arms of the service bave not been s reduced. “The Marine Corps is not aware of any responsible criticism having been made of its ability to meet the tasks allotted to it, or of any reason to sup- pose that the requirements of its war and other missions have been or will be reduced.” The general recalled that the ac-| cepted policy is that the peace-time | strength of the Marine Corps be one- fifth of the actual enlisted strength of the Navy, or 16,000 men, at present, so that it might be organized to pro- vide forces for its war-time functions, | in assisting the flzet in the seizure and | initial defense of advanced bases and | guarding naval shore stations. The Navy's General Board, he said, has rec- | ommended that the Marine Corps, In | time of peace, should be employed as | the nucleus of expeditionary forces for | ships’ detachments, for foreign dmy{ forces, as necessary, for garrison forces and for administrative, training and | supply forces. The Marine Corps has not been ad- vised that its war and other missions “have been or will be reduced,” Gen. Fuller said, but many Marines see this coming. He frankly asserted that there is a feeling that the province of providing expeditionary forces and for- elgn duty may be transferred to the Army. Under international law Ma- Tines can be landed on foreign soil to protect American interests without the | declaration of war, but this could not be done in the case of the Army, of- ficials explained. Weuld Cut Routine Duties. Gen. Fuller depicted the plight of his organization in this wise: “The Marine Corps requires approxi- mately its present enlisted strength for its routine peace-time actiyitles, ex- cluding those having for tHeir object the emergencies of With its present enlisted strength re- duced by 1,743, it is plainly to be seen that these ordinary routine activities must be curtailed by a very consider- able reduction all along the line, and there will be'no enlisted personnel for a force in training and in readiness for peace emergencies or for war serv- ice with the fleet.” If the reduction proposed becomes | law, through the trimming of appro- priations to pay these enlisted men then, Gen. Fuller contends, this would mean “the destruction of the fine mili- tary spirit which now pervad®s the Ma- rin2 Corps,” because the small groups would be so scattered that adequate training would be out of the question. | A large number of non-commissioned | officers are in jeopardy of losing their | chevrons and being reduced to the ranks through the shrinking of the | whole organization, Gen. Fuller assert- ed. He sald | “The morale of the Marine Corps will be seriously impaired by the large num- ber of reductions of non-commissioned officers that will be required by the re- duction_of enlisted strength by 1,743 | men. These men have won their pro- | motions by faithful and efficient serv- ice, and the loss of rank and pay will | be ‘severely felt by them. | Would Hurt Quantico. | Gen. Fuller envisioned the placing | | of the East Coast Expeditionary Force | | hegdguarters at Quantico, Va, in an | | inoperative status—practically shutting | down that post, a few miles down the | ! Potomac River, from the National Cap- ital. The same will be true, he main- tained, of the San Diego, Calif., base. | The Marine Barracks at Parris Island, |s. c, will be shut down altogether, {with only a handful of men to guard Government property there. Already, | to care for the anticipated slash, as a | preparedness measure, the Marines have closed a number of recruiting stations | over the country and clamped down on | first enlistments. taking only certain | reservists and men of the Regular Serv- ice, who have been “paid off” within | three months. Maj. Gen. John T. Myers, assistant to the commandant, and Brig. Gen. | Rufus Lane, the adjutant and inspector | of the Marine Corps, supported Gen. | | Fuller in his stand. 1 {" Gen. Lane contended that recruit, | greatly by any reduction. “Most stations could turn out a squad r | transportation is offered, and that its |$28,500 REALIZED | Local | “My New Year Wish for You.” for training; fewer could turn out a platoon. fewer still a company, very | few a battalion, and perhaps none a | regiment and none a brigade. So unit | training would suffer severely and would probably be nil for the regiment or higher unit,” asserted Gen. Lene. Adams Joins Protest. “Training would suffer a further loss through probable loss of the training stations. It is possible at présent to maintain possession of the _various buildings and sites of our training sta- tions, by the exercise of vigilance, against all comers, although the de- fense has not always been successfull against powerful governmental inter- ests desirirg possession. Nature abhors a vacuum, and, consequently, aids and abets the aggressor in the matter of vacant Government buildings. Under the circumstances, the Marine Corps could not hope to retain these ctations in the face of the night birds seeking to occupy them.” Secretary Adams, Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, and other high-ranking naval officials add- ed their voices in protesting against any slash in the Marine Corps.® Rear Admiral Jehu V. Chase, chair- f the General Board, had this to say: “The General Board, in deter- | mining the strength of the Marine Corps, has held that the present | strength of the Marine Corps is neces- | sary.” Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy De- partment, said that he is advised the British in Asiatic waters have three times the number of Marines that American naval vessels do. . Admiral Upham said. “Depletion of the Navy and Marine Corps has been a real source of concern to me. Depletion of the Marines and Navy means that we are that much less prepared for war.” Co-ordination Held Good. Rear Admiral Thomas T. Craven, U. 8. N., chief co-ordinator of the Fed- eral Government, asserted that splen- did co-ordination and co-operation be- tween the Marines and Navy exists He added that this arrangement is better than being handled by two de- partments of the Government. Other Marine Corps and Navy authorities are also on record in opposition to any re- duction in the enlisted _rength of the “Soldiers of the Sea.” Should the anticipated cut become effective, the Marines say, this would bring the present strength of the organization down to below what it was before the United States entered the World War—when it was 597 officers and 14,981 enlisted men. The present strength of the corps is 15,343 enlisted men, and ‘the proposed slash of 1,743 would bring it down to 13,600. Presi- dent Wilson was authorized to increase the corps in an emergency to 693 officers and 17400 enlisted men, which he did, by executive order, on March 26, 1917. The maximum reached occurred during the World War, when the Marines numbered 3,017 commissioned officers, 324 warrant officers and 75,500 enlisted men. Record Is Cited. And their record? The Marines set it down, proudly, thus: June 14, 1775, the Marine Corps or- | ganized, making it the oldest of the three military branches, from date of actual authorigation. “Following the Revolution,” writes a former commandsnt of the corps, Maj. Ggn. John A. Lejeune, now retired and serving as superintendent of Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Va,| “Marines fought in the naval war with France against the Mediterranean pirates of Tripoli and the Barbary States, in the War of 1812, in the| Mexican War, in the Civil War, against the West Indian pirates, against the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, against the cannibals of the South Sea Islands, against several tribes of American Indians, and landed to protect American | life 'and property in every quarter of the globe, on occasions too numerous to mention.” Marines have been called upon to| serve on foreign sofl to protect American | life and property every year since the | Spanish-American War, in 1898, Gen. Lejeune recalls. In the Philippine in- surrection, in Samoa, as part of the Peking relief column in the Boxer Rebellion, in Panama, Cuba, Honduras, in Nicaragua—and elsewhere over the globe, they have protected the Colors. To France went 30,000 Marines dur- ing the World War, and they left be- hind them as dead 55 officers killed and 1459 enlisted men, with 25 officers and 753 enlisted men who died of their wounds. Casualties totaled 356 officers and 11,612 enlisted men. ‘The Marines contend that their corps has always pald for itself, that it can be mustered and moved with rapidity, without preliminary details, as soon as | | primary duty is with the Navy, the spearhead of America’s battle force. IN SALE OF SEALS Tuberculosis Associationg Still Far Short of Its Campaign Goal. The sale of Chrristmas seals at one cent each has netted the local Tubercu- losis Association a total of $28,500, it| was announced yesterday by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, president, after a meeting of the Executive Committee. | Despite the fact that the amount is| far short of the campaign goal, Mrs. | Grant said the asscclation is to go| ahead with its protectivs and preventive | health services, “in the full faith lhn(i the people of Washington will stand | by and yet make up the considerable | balance of funds absolutely required for these services.” The amount raised by the Christmas seals means, she said,that the Chil-| dren’s Tuberculosis Clinic at 512 I| street, Will be in operation regularly during 1933 from 9 to 11 a.m. on Mon- days and Pridays, that trained workers will continue to visit homes where the | disease exists and that the Summer | camp for tubercular children again will open. The funds also are used to campeign for legislation to remove the alleys of Washington, and continue the free educational literature on behalf| of health measures. CHURCH MOTTO IS TOPIC | Metropolitan Baptist to Have Vis- itors for Evening Service. At the Metropolitan Baptist Church today Rev. John Compton Ball will speak on the “Church Motto for the Coming Year.” The evening service will be known as “Community Night Around the Lighted Tree.” The spe- cial guests of the evening will be the women of the Baptist Home. Fifteen young men of the Senior B. Y. P. U, with autos, will call for them and will | act as personal escorts. The children | of the Baptist Home also will be pres- | cnt, and have a spacial pact on the program. Pastor Ball will preach in the light of the great tree on the topic, Dona- tions will be received all day for the | service Thursday evening will be con- ducted by the pastor, | the “Tadio for shoes for the shoeless. | iTON, D. C., JANUARY HUNDREDS NEEDING OLD' SHOES' BADLY 0id Lady Who Lives in Shoe Hard Put to Find Enough Pairs. The Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe at 727 Seventeenth street is hard put to it to get enough shoes to take care of the hundreds who every day come to see her, their feet literally on the ground, beseeching her for help. Yesterdsy morning there were more than 100 waiting outside the back alley entr®nce of the Old Lady's shop, the rain running in givulets past their bare, partly bare and 'n some cases raw ana bleeding feet, waiting for shoes. There were white and colowed men, white and colored women, and children, most of the latter in the remains of last Sum- mer's sneakers, standing in ,the rain waiting for their turn to get into the Old Lady's shop #nd see if some kind person had left a pair of shoes they could get on their feet. The Old Lady is depending upon the people Who have shoes to give their scuffed but otherwise serviceable foot- gear to those who haven't shoes and yet who have the weary task of plod- ding the streets day after day in futile search of work. Appeal Brings Results. Yesterday morning was a speci { morning at the Old Lady's shop. Fr: day night Gideon A. Lyon, one of those | intergsted in the welfare of the Old Lady, had delivered an appeal over | The Old Lady's cupboard had been bare | the night before, and except for a lot of women's+shoes that it was hard to find wearers for, there was no service- able footgear in the place. But the radio talk did the trick, and by the time (ieorge Emerson, a World War aviator and a member of the Dis- trict bar, who is helping out the Old Lady, arrived at the shop there were great bundles of shoes to be looked over, some to be put on *he shelves for immediate distribution and others to be sent off to shoemakers to be recon- ditioned and distributed when new soles and heels had been fitted. And all morning long sleek limousines, little coupes and people afoot stopped before the Old Lady's shop and de- posited bundles of shoes, until by the time the crowd of men, women and children seeking shoes was allowed into the little shop, there was a selection of shoes that bade fair to take care of the morning rush, at least. Staff Kept Busy. All morning Mr. Emerson and his| staff of helpers wes képt busy rushing out to cars and faxicabs delivering shoes, sorting th m es to size and con- dition, and at the same time taking care of the score or more men, women and children who at all times huddled in the back of the shop waiting their turn to try on shoes. All the applicants for shoes bore notes from charitable organizations or from some friend of the Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe. And they were given shoes if any could be found to fit them. “The great need is for big men’s | shoes,” said Mr. Emerson yesterday. | “We seem to be getting about, enough | women's shoes to meet the demand, but | the men who work in the fields and ditches, who have no work to do now, wear large shoes, and the people who | are giving us shoes don't seem to be the | kind of people who have big feet. Men come back day after day, their big feet literally on the ground, in the hope some one will bring in a size 11 or 12, or even larger, that they can wear.” 1 There are some pitiful tales to be| found in the daily routing of the Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe. | Last Friday night Mr. Emerson was | about to close up shop after an espe- | cially busy day—it's always busy for the | Old Lady when it rains—when five small children came into the shop. There was not a shoe on a single one of the 10 little feet. Their feet were| as bare as the day they were born. “We want some shoes. A friend told us we could get them here,” & manly little youngster spoke up. “And so you shall,” replied Mr. Emer- son, after reading a scribbled note from a friend of the Old Lady. Receive Stockings Also. | It just happened that some money had been turned over a few days ago to the Old Lady, and for the first time in many days there were children's shoes in the shop. They were new shoes, shoes that were old stock of a shoe dealer here, some that had been glven outright to the Old Lady, and ‘others that had been sold for far less thar their cost Each of the five children who had been walking the streets barefoot in Christmas week was fitted with a pair | of new, serviceable shoes. And Mr. Enferson even managed to scrape to- gether stockings for the youngsters and | sent home to. their mother about a dozen pairs of stockings that some kind f;lend of the Old Lady had sent to the shop. Mr. Emerson has requested that all school teachers and school principals who find children in their schools in need of shoes, and whose parents can- not supply them, t. send the children to the Old Lacy and have them fitted | up while the supply of children’s shoes lasts. He also issued a call for persons of means with children who are out- growing their shoes, to send in the old Shoes, so they can be repaired and dis- tributed. “It dpesn't matter,” he said, “if the children’s shoes have soles that are too thin. If they can be repaired, we can get it done for nothing, and can dis- tribute them to children who might not otherwise be able to go to school, or who might be in danger of becoming seriously ill through exposure of their feet in Winter.” The Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe| is not really an old lady, but a commit- | tee of public spirited citizens which is sponsoring the work. F. Regis Noel is chairman of the committee. MINNESOTANS TO STAGE RALLY HERE JANUARY 16 Justice Butler, Senator Shipstead | | | | | | i and Walter Newton Expected to Attend. | A “Minnesota rally” will be staged at the Washington Club January 16, under auspices of the Minnesota State Society, it was announced last night. All Minnesotans residing in Washing- ton, including members of Congress and | Government officials, will be invited to attend the cvent. The feature of the evening will be a flag ceremony sur- rounding the presentation of the State and American flags to the society. Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the | United States Supreme Court, Senator Henrik Shipstead, Walter H. Newton, secretary to President Hoover, and other officials are expected to participate in the flag ritual. An entertatinment pro- gram will be followed by election of of- ficers for the next year. There will be dancing and a buffet supper served at the rally, which is scheduled to begin at 8:30. 3 | —_— PRINCIPAL TO SPEAK Bertie Backus to Address Chevy Chase Association. Miss Bertie Backus, principal of the Alice Deal Junior High School, will ad- dress a meeting of the Chevy Chase Home and School Association day at 6 p.m. in the 1 Home for Children, Nebraska avenue .and Rock Creek Ford road. Her topic will be, “Preparations for Our Junior High School at Home and at School.” Miss | Women Voters, the Council of Women |45 PLANES TO STOP | stated. | derson, David L. Cloud, Edward Pugh, ‘Wednes- | stalled. 1, 1933—PART ONE. Shoes for the Destitute Scene yesterday at the shop of “The Old Woman in a Shoe,” where shoes were being distributed to the destitute. WILL ATTEND ANTI-WAR PARLEY Representatives of 5,000,000 U. S. Women to Meet Here January 17. The Eighth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, to begin here January | 17, is expected to attract approximately 600 delegates, representing 5,000,000 | American women. | The conference will be largely of a discussional character, a portion of each morning and afternoon being de- voted to round tables directed by lead- ers in international affairs. The general objectives of the National | Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, as announced in the preliminary program, are: To build effective peace machinery; to reduce war machinery and to obtain guaranteed security against war for every nation. Represented at Session. ‘The following organizations will be | represented at the meeting: The| American Association of University | Women, the General Federation of | Women's Clubs, the National Federa- tion of Business and Professional Wom- en's Clubs, the National League of | for Home Missions, the Federation of ‘Women's Boards of Foreign ‘Missions of North America, the National Board of | the Young Women's Christian Asso- | clations, the National Council of Je ish Women, the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Na- tional Women's Conference of Amer- | ican Ethical Union and the National Women’s Trade Union League. Mary Woolley to Speak. Among the speakers will be Miss Mary A. Woolley, president, Mount Holyoke College and a representative of the United States to the Geneva Dis- | armament Conference; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Ruth Morgan of New York City, Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, Mrs. Frederick M. Paist, Miss Josephine Schain, Mrs. Israel Zangwill, Dr. James G. McDonald, Prof. James T. Shotwell, Bruce Bliven, Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Willlam A. Nielson, Dr. Stanley High, | Dr. Jacob Viner, Dr. Jacob H. Hol- lander, Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, Prof. Nathaniel Peffer, Frederick J. Libby and Prof. Ralph H. Stimson. HERE IN MIAMI RACE Washington to Be “Control Stop"” for Craft on Tuesday After- noon. Washington will be the afternoon “control stop” of 45 planes flying from Long Island to Miami next Tuesday for the air race to be held in the Florida city Thursday, Priday and Saturday, * was announced yesterday. The announcement was made by John S. Reaves, president of the Amateur Air Pilots’ Association, in a telegram to C. H. Warrington. More than 20| other planes will join the flight in Rich- | mond and Greensboro, the message | While in Washington, the pllots will | be Warrington's guests at luncheon, which also is expected to be attended by many persons prominent in various phases of aviation. A score or more Navy planes will demonstrate formation and tactical fly- ing at the air race, it was announced. | They will not participate in any of the racing events, however. There will be nine fighting planes from the Naval Air Station at Pensa- cola, six Marine planes from Quantico and a number of others from Anacostia and Pensacola. The Marine planes from Quantico, consisting of one transport and six si! le-seaters, include the following offi- | cers: Lieut. Col. Ross E. Rowell, Lieut. | Thomas J. Walker, Lieut. Lawson San- | Clarence Chappell, Glenn Britt and EI- | reer Salzman, all of the Marine Corps. The personnel from Pensacola has not vet been designated. MEN TO HOLD SESSION Lincoln Temple Brotherhood Meets | ods of oyster culture can save Chesa- | Marine Band Plans | Annual Serenade | For Chief of Corps Gen. Fuller to Receive Members After Event Here Tomorrow. The Marine Band will serenade Maj. Gen. Commandant Ben H. Fuller at his home at the Marine Barracks, Eighth and G streets southeast, tomor- row at 11:30 a.m. In making this announcement yes- terday, the Navy Department said that this has been the custom since the days of the inception of the Marine Band and particularly since headquarters of the corps moved to the National Capi- tal on July 12, 1800. In full dress uniform, the members of the band will | turn out, to do honor to their chief. The musical arrangement will include the Marines'’ hymm, “The Halls of Montezuma,” “Semper Fidelis,” “Kil- larney,” “The Stars and Stripes For- ever,” and such other special requests by the commandant for which he may have a particular liking. After the concert, the entire personnel of the band will be invited into the com- mandant’s quarters for luncheon. Naval authorities said that a search of their records fails to reveal just when this custom started, but “it is pre- sumed that the band of 1800, which then consisted of a drum major, a fife major and 32 drums and fifes inaugu- rated the ceremony.” Gen. Fuller is expected to deliver a brief address to the band members. HITLER PREDICTS WORLD COLLAPSE Foresees Communist Vic- tory and Blames “So- Called Statesmen.” By the Associated Press. MUNICH, Germany, December 31.— Adolf Hitler, in a New Year message to | his National Socialist party followers, | today predicted a gradual “ripening” of the world for bolshevism. statesmen,” he said, who are carrying ‘bourgeois blinkers” which meet this “dreadful phencmenon” with inability. “Collapse is a mere question of time. The consequences and ensuing chaos must be destructive. ‘The bourgeis party . politicians have no imagination of the immense menace threatening the world,” the Nazi leader said. “In a country of 6,000,000 Commu- nists, 7,500,000 Socialists and 6,000,000, more or less, pacifisticlly infected ele- ments, it would be better not to speak of equality and rearming,” he added. The message continued by stating Germany'’s rise could only be effected by the National Socialists and that it is their merit to have shortened, possibly even have ended, the “epoch of camou- flaged communism.” Reviewing the National Socialist 1932 activities, Hitler said it was “a big, suc- | cessful year of fight; it beat the Marx- ist regime in Prussia and the Reich.” Attacking Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Hitler said the present government was continuing the pro- gram of former Chancellor von Papen, that it will meet with the most “ser ous” failure and the Nazis will be the | final victors. DECLINE DEPLORED IN OYSTER YIELD| Only Modern Methods Can Save Chesapeake Bay Area Declares Biologist of Fisheries Bureau. Only the adoption of modern meth- | peake Bay as an area for growing oys- ters, according to the United States Bureau of Fisheries. “Under the present system,” says This Morning. The Men's Brotherhood of Lincoln | Congregational Temple will meet this | morning at 9:45 am. The devotional | exercises will be led by John H. Wil-| liams. An address will be given by Dr. John R. Hawkins. At the 11 o'clock service, Dr. R. W. | Brooks will speak on “Giving Christian- ity a New Deal” Special musical se- lections will be rendered. The Young People's C. E. Society will present a New Year's program at 6:45 pm. The subject is, “Facing Life Gallantly.” —_————— NEW YEAR IS TOPIC “The New Year's Challenge” will be the subject of the sermon by Rev. Ger- hard E. Lenski, pastor. in Grace Lu- theran Church today~at 11 a.m. communion will be celebrated. In the evening at 7:30 o'clock the pastor will preach on “Numbering Our Days.” On January 8, the newly elect- ed church council will be formally in- The council is composed of Holy Robert O. Smith, aquatic biologist of the bureau, “it will eventually become economically impossible to produce oys- ters from Chesapeake Bay.” Terming the Chesapeake the finest body of water in America for produc- | ing oysters, Smith, who devotes all his time to study of the bivalve, says proper methods would increase the size and improved the quality of the bay's yield. ‘The Chesapeake’s yield decreased from 17,000,000 bushels of oysters in 1880 to 5,000,000 bushels in 1930. SCOTTISH RITE ELECTS Officers Are Named by Eureka Lodge, A. F. & A. M. The Eureka Lodge of the United Scottish Rite, A, F. and A. M, has elected the following officers: Rev. C. B. Williams, ny 3 James Claggetts, senior warden; Owan Mor- gan, junior warden; Frank Coates, sec- retary; L. Thomas, tre.surer; Andrew Noris, tyler, and Rev. Oscar Price, chairman of the Past Master Council. Lehmann, president; Earl S. Haislip, vice president; Noel B. Parks, sec G. 1. Anderson, financial mhau, ‘Waple, Frapk Bumgarner, treasurer. wW. G. lain, J¢ of the Si dress. The lodge will assemble at St. James' Mission January 8 to have an address of the history of King Soloman Temple, * A5 REPORT ON SOCIAL TRENDS IN'U. S. DUE Results of Three-Year Study to Be Given by Hoover Group Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 31.—The re- sults of a three-year survey of Ameri- can life during the last 30 years will be presented Monday when the President's Research Committee on Social Trends makes public its report. President Hoover named the commit- tee of experts on social sclence in 1929. They have had the assistance of hun- dreds of investigators. An announcement from the group’s headquarters here says the report “will stress the long-time social problems facing the American people with a view to supplying a basis for the formulation of large national policies for the future.” Among the subjects covered by the Teport are population, utilization _of natural wealth, inventions and dis- coveries, economic organizations, occu- pations, education, social attitudes, metropolitan communities, rural life, vitality of the people, the family activi~ ties of women outside of the home, labor, consumer habits, recreation, arts, religious organizations, health and | medical practice, crime, governmental functions, taxation and law and legal institutions. et BAVARIAN COSTUMES CHILD CONFERENCE This process was being hastened by | the blindness and delusion of “so-called | OFFICE 15 CLOSED Work Established by Presi- dent Hoover Ends Because of Lack of Funds, ‘The White House Conference for Child Health and Protection, established two years ago by President Hoover and sup- ported privately, closed its doors yes- terday due to lack of funds with which to continue. ‘The Interior Department, in announc- ing the closing of the office, called the conference “the most comprehensive study of child welfare that was ever made.” Secretary Wilbur, conference chairman, said its work would be left to State and local committees. “The funds made available from pri- vate sources for financing the White House Conference,” Secretary Wilbur said, “have been exhausted. The Con- ference was a great, voluntary move- ment which broyght together from all parts of the country those who were in- terested and informed on child health, education, welfare and recreation. Hun- dreds of vital key people in this field have labored through a period of three and a half years that they might bring to the fundamental problem of the well- being of the child the best that the Na- tion had to offer. “The result was a series of group con- ferences, the organization of the work, the preparation of findings, and the final national gathering in Washigton in November, 1930, before which was presented such fundamental material as to impress a Nation. “In two years that have followed that conference the task has been to secure a utilization of the facts that it developed. There have been two steps to this end—State conferences through- out the Nation, and the publication of 30 volumes of findings, with 10 yet to come.” | | | —_—— Society Delays Meeting. The regular monthly meeting of the Shakespeare Society, scheduled for to- morrow, has been postponed until Janu- ary 9, when Miss M. E. J. Czarnomska will address the group on “What Is a Essex Coach T sg.llll ning oy for ey bt 1929 Ford Tudor 129 Hurry! 1930 Ford Road’str 109 Model T Ford Fordor sg.flfl 1932 Ford V-8 Cabr. g 1932 Ford Tudor green, khaki top. Try and match thig value any- where in D. C. Late Model at » give-away price. Close out price T r a nsporta- tion for a song. Don't miss It! very little, Lowest price in town. L WILL FEATURE DANCE Edelweiss Troupe to Be Host at “Mountain Ball” Next Satur- day Night, Bavarian mountain costumes will pre- vail at the first “Mountain Ball” to be staged at Knights of Columbus Hall next Saturday night by the Washing- ton Edelweiss Troupe, assisted by similar troupe from Philadelphia. Members of both troupes, as well as members of Prof. von Steinwalt's 10- piece German brass band of Baltimore, which will furnish music for dancing, will wear the Bavarian mountain peas~ ants’ costumes. The Edelweiss Troupes, both of which were organized by Frank Korber, 927 M street, are German costume societies, made up largely of former dwellers in gmu mt}un&airfis %tw‘;en Bavaria and witzerland. Mr. Korber is pre: o Weshiaaion president of WILL REVIEW BOOKS Chi Omega Sorority Alumnae to Meet Thursday. Mrs. George H. Genzmer will review <Dusty Answer” and “Invitation to the Waltz,” by Rosamond Lehmann, at & book review hour to be held by the Book Review Section of the Washing- fon Alumnae of Chi Omega Sorority, Thursday at 8 pm. at 2020 G street. Mrs. Hobert D. 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